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45 ADAPTERS - "DON'T TRUST ANYONE WHO DOESN'T DANCE" ("Longshot Music"/"Contra Records"; 7" Single):

Yeahr, here it is, probably the 7'' single of the year of 2010. And yes, okay, okay, you've been waiting quite a long while already now for this review, I know, I know, and there's no saying "Sorry!" from me to you this time, damn it, it's just that I somehow was all the time too busy with other things on this blog than writing down this review, but don't you ask me fuckin' why, just take it like it is, a little big misfortune. But how-ever, it doesn't really matter anymore, 'cause now the review's coming!!! And yes, like I said it already, this 7" has all the potential to become one of the very best if not the best releases of 2010 (and also for many of all the last past years), no matter if single releases or what the fuck else ever. With the 45 ADAPTERS the city of New York is sending out its finest finally again, delivering us three new stand-alone and just great and pure gold if not platinum songs with this 7" masterpiece. On Side A we do get the title track called "DTAWDD" or "DON'T TRUST ANYONE WHO DOESN'T DANCE", and this track really is just larger than life. Call it Skinhead Rock & Roll, Skinhead Punkrock, American Oi!, Short Haired Rock & Roll, or just Punkrock, all with some Mod influences in it, how-ever, call it how you might, this is really damn well-versed and just great and brilliant music straight out from the streets of the cold concrete of NYC without any bullshit clichès or what ever, just REAL Underground Rock & Roll music and really something special!!! What I first noticed was the great and anything but ordinary rhythm structure of the song: Just listen to the strophes and this heavy yet delicate and suprisingly extravagant and damn fresh and agile forward marching rhythm work and watch and listen to how suddenly it then turned into this angry and hard hitting stoic rhythm of the chorus parts, without taking a 'rest' respectively break and without using and abusing any kinds of clichès, that's just fantastic and really something special. Brilliant job, no matter if you take the songwriting or the abilities of the musicians, in this case especially of the 'rhythm workers' in the band. Then there's also the great guitar work, great guitar riffing and just pure beauty guitar leads, that are really turning the pure gold of this song in nothing but just pure and great platinum. And on top of it there are this fantastic charismatic and very smart vocals, smoky, warm, full, and forceful, great, really giving the song its crown. Just great stuff!!! Also the lyrics are damn cool and also something special!!! If you've read the interview I've done with them here on this blog before (it was the first interview that was up to read here) then you know that "DTAWDD" is the only policy of the band so you might can say that this a political song of them that really comes without ANY kind of stupid clichès or stereotypes or something like this. Great!!! And even if you don't want to take it as a political song then it's 'just' a tribute to the lifestyle we all live in one way or another, and that also without ANY stupid clichè crap, and that's also just great!!! A brilliant piece of music!!! Okay, then on Side B we do get two tracks, "THROW IT OUT" and "BRAND NEW GOOD OLD DAYS", the last track is dedicated to Kevin "OXBLOOD" Geddes that tragically died much too young earlier this year. And there's also all of this what makes the 45 ADAPTERS to such a great and brilliant and outstanding band, the great and very marking yet not anyway gratingly and also very, very soulful guitar work, the very special rhythm work and rhythm structure, as well as the larger than life lead vocals that really do team up with the guitar leads to carry the songs to their climax' time and time again. Just great!!! Also the lyrics are fantastic, about finding real health in letting things go and throw this box of buried dreams and emotions out ("THROW IT OUT") and about how times change and what does change and what not and that it's not that fullfilling to live just in the past but to make some memories out of today that will last ("BRAND NEW GOOD OLD DAYS"), and also this lyrics are giving me so damn much that I just have to say an honest 'THANX!' to the band!!! There's really no good comparision with the 45 ADAPTERS, of course you can somehow still say that if you like THE TEMPLARS you will also like the 45 ADAPTERS but this comparision is just not doing justice to the 45 ADAPTERS anymore (if it ever had done...) so just take a listen by yourself to the band's music and I just hope that this review is maybe something like a cornerstone for ya if ya want to get in touch with their music, and that's something that you really should finally do!!! A fantastic band, and I'm really looking forward to their first full length record!!! The 7" is coming in crazy colors of yellow/green with blue and white splatter effects (but I think that there had been several different colors floating around), in a very nice artwork, with all the lyrics and some promotion for other label releases, and all in a great and very warm, full and earthy production sound, ah, and to play this record of the 45 ADAPTERS you finally need a 45 adapter, if you know what  I mean. All in all a more than just great package, that you really have to have. Point and fact! So get it! Now!!! Ah, and btter be quick, 'cause for what I know this 7" is again very, very strictly limited to a small number of copies, so it's I guess it's already a colletors gem, so hurry up!!! Cheers & Oi! (10 of 10 points)

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